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Trolls!

posted 13 years ago by arorashadow_2003
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In the IMDB, TROOOL in the IMDB. Thought you ought know.

Really what lame brains all got together and voted this down to 4.0 >:(

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[–] trisection 13 years ago

Nah man it's just gorespammer again.

[–] Reidimsn 13 years ago

It's pretty troll to rate this garbage anime with 10.

[–] Kiniest 12 years ago

Even if you do dislike this series, to call it garbage is an overstatement. You might not have seen a real garbage anime. You know, the ones that barely try to do anything. Madoka's got well-placed symbolism, a well thought plotline, and a well executed production. Say what you want but this series tries hard enough to not be defined as "garbage". But, hey, if you've got a good reason, I'd like to hear it.

[–] STIMjim 12 years ago

Nothing but crickets. This anime blew me away. I've watched a lot of anime, and this one is by far a great example of how anime should be. Of course, many anime shows are different, incorporating awesome fight scenes along with great art work. This on the other hand, didn't have a lot of cool "fight scenes" (compared to other flashy shows) but had such poise when it came to story telling. I never experienced so much emotion over characters before, especially Homura. Her character really fleshed out well by the end of the story, and you really felt the pain and torment she was going through by the end. It's a story about friendship, painful decision making, and finding hope, in hopeless situations. A lot of the characters were creatively made, having their own problems, regrets, and difficult choices. Really excellent work by Gen Urobuchi, I would like to meet this man in person and shake his hand haha.

[–] flyingcowherder 11 years ago

I genuinely thought this anime was pretty awful. The plot was predictable and too simple. The characters were painfully two-dimensional and utterly unlike real people, let alone real 14-year-old girls. It was also too self-consciously literary, pandering specifically to a crowd of anime-watchers who desperately want to see their favourite, often maligned art-form tackle "serious" and "dark" themes with pretensions of subversive, post-modern 'high art'. It fails dismally, however. Its writer obviously watched Neon Genesis Evangelion and thought "Oh, so 'dark' melodrama = profound! Great!". As a result, it's drowning in Wangst: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Wangst. Also see TrueArtIsAngsty: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TrueArtIsAngsty. The whole thing was so melodramatic and wanky it made me want to shoot myself. It desperately wanted to have something genuinely interesting, profound or unique to say but just didn't. It was incredibly shallow with equally shallow pretensions of thematic depth.

For all its pretensions at high art, it was also full of cliches. I cringed when the hidden crux of the series was revealed to be yet another lazy, uninspired "multiple timelines" "groundhog day" sort of plot device. The dialogue was also absolutely ridden with cringe-inducing cliches.

About the only good thing I can say about this series is that the art style during the battles was very pretty.

[–] sooperklew 8 years ago

I think you calling anything pretentious is pretty funny.

I think we can pretty much hold up your review as a mirror.

Clearly you are very pretentious and you watch way too much anime. You are here projecting your shortcomings on other people.

I liked it, i don't watch every anime there is so the combination of cutesy girls and a dark subject matter is something that you don't see in American television. Either something is cutesy or its dark its never both.